End of the rainbow

Posted on July 3, 2024 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Clouds, dark sky, Life, Memory, Rain, Rainbow, Sketching, Sunlight, Time, Water, Weather4 Comments

I just read a post on Facebook about a rainbow and it bought back memories from the 1980s.

I was outside on a sunny day when dark clouds piled up as a shower passed by. I noticed a rainbow forming and unbelievably the end came down just up the street from where I was, about fifty yards away. I walked forward and it moved away. I tried jogging, but it kept the same distance away, then gradually faded as the sunlight was blocked by clouds behind me. I really think this is a real memory, not imagined…

Owlish

Posted on June 29, 2024 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Cartoon, Design, Drawing, Fun, Life, Owl, sketchbook app, Sketching, symmetricalLeave a comment

Doodle using the Sketchbook app on my phone. I used a symmetry tool to draw it. And various brushes to colour it in. I’ve always loved owls and I like the quirky shapes. There are so many types of owls from little owls to eagle owls, barn, snowy, long eared owls. Wonderful creatures.

Playing with fashion.

Posted on June 11, 2024 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged ArtRage app, Doodle, Drawing, Great British Sewing Bee, Life, Pattern, Photodirector app, SketchingLeave a comment

Watching the Great British Sewing Bee on TV (a TV show on BBC which pits a number of amateur sewing competetors against each other) I drew these trying to channel fashion, remembering old fashioned sewing patterns you could get in the 1970’s. I doodled a design, but not feeling very well so just messing about. I used Artrage and Photodirector to create the patterns.

Scone

Posted on June 9, 2024 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged cherry Scone, Cooking, fodder, Food, Life, odder, Poem, Poetry, Rhyme, scone pronunciation, SketchingLeave a comment

Cherry Scone with jam and cream.

Tasty treat makes me beam!

But how do you pronounce this fodder?

Which pronunciation is odder?

Call it a scone?

Once eaten it’s gone!

Call it a scone?

To rhyme with stone?

But surely that’s fake?

It’s then a rock cake!

A few old sketches

Posted on June 7, 2024 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Drawing, Facebook, Memories, Regrets, Sketching, the Dorothy Clive garden, Time travelLeave a comment

Drawings from a few years ago at the Dorothy Clive garden that came up on my Facebook memories today. Happier days, when things were not so difficult. Sometimes time should be allowed to go backwards. Even if it’s like the film back to the future. A few hours to tweak the space time continuum. Then I could still be happy. But nil desperandum I need to get on with life. No regrets? I don’t think so.

Happy Cat

Posted on June 7, 2024 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Artrage, Colours, Digital drawing, Ginger, ginger cat, Life, Poem, Poetry, Silly, SketchingLeave a comment

Oh the joy of a happy cat

Smiling teeth, sharp claws

Ready to pounce

Satisfied with his hunting skills

He can stay in the house

Leave birds

Play with his toy mouse!

Stay happy but quiet!

Good cat!

Variation

Posted on June 5, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged AI scene, Art, Digital drawing, Escher, Instagram, Life, Photodirector, Sketching, Time, Variation5 Comments

Put my digital drawing through an app called photodirector. I chose the AI scene option. You can see how it’s affected the image.

Busy

Posted on June 2, 2024 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Abstract, Art, ArtRage app, Digital drawing, Pattern, sketchbook app, SketchingLeave a comment

A busy abstract pattern that evolved in a couple of apps. Not very neat and tidy and only done this because I couldn’t think of anything else on the busy theme. For prompt “busy” #bandofsketchers

Etruria Canal Festival

Posted on June 2, 2024 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Black ink, Drawing, Etruria festival, Etruria Industrial museum, Forge, Life, Sketching, Stoke-on-Trent Urban sketchers, Urban sketchingLeave a comment

Drawings for the Stoke-on-Trent urban sketchers group. I was sorry not to see any other urban sketchers there at Etruria today but I was just there to sing with Clay Chorus and the Boat Band. I was getting a lift there and back with someone so I couldn’t stay. First drawing, The Forge with someone sitting on the wall. The second was across the canal on the car park looking back at the festival while waiting for the Shuttle bus. Hampered by a stiff breeze and my hat blowing off twice!

Metallic eye?

Posted on May 24, 2024 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, ArtRage app, Blue, Digital drawing, Drawing, Eye, Funny, Metallic, pupil, SketchingLeave a comment

I’ve jut tried to alter the drawing of a gold bangle I drew for another post. I’ve smudged the outside and added white to the centre then a blue pupil with white highlights. I also rotated the image by 90°.

I’ve ended up with an eye apparently floating in space. Perhaps I should add stars?

Mallaband-Brown

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